I'm not sure what Leatherman is doing in this thead about Serino and Baez, but how does an association with Jeralyn discredit him?

Leatherman discredits himself.

Leatherman, in his blog, does all of the things Jeralyn is very strict about disallowing in her forums. He lies about evidence and attacks the character of GZ, among many other things. I suspect any interaction Jeralyn may have had with Leatherman in the past was peripheral and/or not long lasting.

I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that it was the governor in a blind panic when he heard that Wolfinger was going to turn the case over to the grand jury.

It was the governor, according to Corey. I was reviewing the transcript of her press conference to see if she ever directly stated DeeDee was a minor and came upon a statement confirming it was the governor's decision to take over the investigation from SPD.

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COREY: We work together with our law enforcement officers here.

As you see, I have my sheriff and our undersheriff here. We work with all of our law enforcement agencies where to try to work these cases together. Remember prosecutors are law enforcement as well. And we work these cases with our investigating agencies and we try to come to as many mutual decisions as we can.

This case was in that process when the governor stepped in and appointed us to take it over. We have continued to work with the Sanford Police Department. We got full cooperation in all of those significant documents and records from Mr. Wolfinger and then Bernie and John and their team took this over and did a lot more work, and we came to our conclusion based on the facts and Florida's law.

It was the governor, according to Corey. I was reviewing the transcript of her press conference to see if she ever directly stated DeeDee was a minor and came upon a statement confirming it was the governor's decision to take over the investigation from SPD.